Here's a bit of odd food-news. In Cumbria, the department of tourism has set up a dedicated telephone line, the Lakes' Escape Line, that is supposed to help people beat the winter blues when it is light out only a few hours each day. Callers will hear "cheerful sounds," including "a reading of Wordsworth's Daffodils [and] the sound of water lapping at Windermere." The sound of sizzling sausages - Cumberland sausages, of course - will also be prominently featured.
Daylight or no, you would think that people would be capable of comforting themselves with sausages at any time of year without calling a phone line to hear them sizzling in a pan. And wouldn't it be better to smell the sausages than to hear them anyway?
I got the impression that the Escape line would be a free-call, but if they charge for the sounds, residents might want to start saving up and stocking their freezers with sausages before winter sets in and they consider calling.
Second Helping of Slashfood - June 19
Competitive-Eating Contest to Pit Humans Against Elephants
The Backyard Boom - The Hungry Bride
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
11-07-2006 @ 4:08PM
Judith said...
IS the whole world NUTS ???? people would actually pay to hear that???? then they deserve to go nuts cause they are already!!!
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 4:37PM
Johestina said...
Sausage for me means a long, painful stay on the toilet.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 4:53PM
MARIA said...
COMING FROM GERMAN DESCENT, I CAN ATTEST TO THE TRUTH OF SMELLING SAUSAGES FRYING IN A PAN! MY CHOLESTEROL IS ALSO 527!
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:02PM
Mike said...
BEST Kielbasa in the WORLD is at Komemski's outside of Pittston PA. We can't go to Pa. without buying 50 pounds. Old world quality and value.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:02PM
Larry Hirsch said...
i must agree. I recently started eating Bratwurst and it calming and satisfying. My blood level have improved and it's can be served so many ways...on a bun with sauted onions,with pasta,in eggs and best done slowing away from the flame on your barbque
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:08PM
dungeater said...
sausage is so full of fat. you can feel the fat in your mouth when you're chewing it. gross.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:11PM
Johestina said...
Bratwurst is disgusting. Larry, you're going to end up dieing of a heart attack. How the hell do your blood levels improve if you start eating the crappiest foods? Ahh....now I know....you're fat and don't know the difference.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:13PM
Ophelia Dick said...
There is no good sausage
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:15PM
Ophelia Dick said...
Johestina... whoa!
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:31PM
Iwana Goodman said...
I have never met a saugage yet that had a calming effect on my life. Maybe I just have not met the right sausage.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:36PM
spin1200 said...
Hey Larry, I AGREE! LETS ALL TOAST OUR BRATS FOR OKTOBERFEST!
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 5:46PM
SL said...
Does one have to Eat the sausage to have calming effects?
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:23PM
jennifer said...
"blood levels"? HA! i hope yer not eating this raw (then again, what difference would it make).
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:24PM
Josh said...
I assume you smoke the sausages.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:24PM
jennifer said...
SL, you must take the sausage to the bedroom.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:25PM
Josh said...
I assume you smoke the sausages.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:43PM
Bill Hilser said...
It all depends where a girl sticks it.
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:44PM
Bill Hilser said...
Sausage has a calming effect? It all depends on where a girl sticks it!
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 6:57PM
MARIA said...
Smoked sausage is the best! Homemade sausages of every kind are great from the West Side Market In Cleveland, Ohio on W.25th St. Yumm-o!, Maria in Sebastian, Fl.
Reply
11-07-2006 @ 7:05PM
Edvard said...
There is "good" sausage and then there is "GREAT" sausage. We have the best sausage here in Cleveland, Ohio and the best of the best is at Raddell's Sausage Shop.
Reply